Oxford athlete wows at BodyPower

Banbury bodybuilder Arran Arogundade has lifted the lid on his rapid climb to success. Arogundade is a fitness fanatic making his way up the ranks, tipping the scales at 100kg, he has wowed thousands of fans with his impressive physique.

Arogundade started off training at his family home using a bench and set of weights in the garage, at 17 years old he joined his local gym and fell in love with training.

His road to success has been a blend of hitting the gym hard, eating a variety of protein sources and good genetics.

He told Oxford Mail: “I love the gym, I love working hard, the gym is like home to me”.

His goals for 2017 are to grow his social media and impact as many lives as possible.

He said: “It’s not just about the body, I want my character to show through too”.

Arogundade talks about how important nutrition is for maintaining his figure. He eats a lot of protein and vegetables when training for a competition, however he has admitted that he is partial to the odd burger and Krispy Crème doughnut!

After a few years of training, Arogundade competed for the first time at BodyPower expo in 2014 winning the world’s fitness championships. He got signed by SCI-MX Nutrition and currently represents clothing brand Pursue fitness. He continues to grow and has competed in WBFF London placing top 5 over the last 2 years.

Last weekend was the BodyPower event that took place at the NEC in Birmingham. BodyPower, as some people will know, is the largest fitness expo in the world, all the biggest athletes and brands of the fitness industry attend this event.

I attended BodyPower as part of the press representing the Oxford Mail on Saturday 13th May. Jeremy Clifton Gould (cameraman and film director) and I went around interviewing some of the sponsored athletes and getting some awesome footage of all the action happening around the event.

Below is a small snippet of an Oxford Mail special. Next week, another video providing all the footage of the interviews conducted will be posted. Keep visiting my blog, or checking up on youtube for further updates.

Simply Gym in Cheltenham Gloucestershire, held their first strong man/woman event on the 22nd April 2017 which I had the pleasure of attending.

‘Simply the Strongest’ was organised by PT Matt Kurlinkus of Maximum Personal Training and Nutrition. Matt is a personal trainer at Simply Gym and has been coaching and training the contestants in preparation for this event for the last few months.

The event was incredibly successful and had a fair number of spectators attend. A charity barbecue was also being held alongside the competition in aid of Diabetes UK. Simply gym were able to raise over £150 for charity. It was a fantastic sunny afternoon and a proud day for family and friends who attended.

The event was sponsored by Images Plus who provided the competitors strong man t-shirts. Cheltenham Mercedes also supported the event by lending the venue two fabulous cars for the competitors car pull. @IntergritaPlus for supplying the video footage, and @allaboutsportsclothing for the merchandise.

Throughout the day I was able to record some of the events taking place, and interview most of the contestants. It was an incredibly close contest, everybody did a tremendous job and made a fantastic achievement. The video I have submitted below is of some of the competitors and a few clips of the challenges that they undertook. I’m sorry that I couldn’t get around everybody that day, had a little malfunction with my phone. Please excuse the editing it’s not the best video I’ve done, but I hope you enjoy J please feel free to leave any comments on the home page.